how to put the border around a headshot?

HI

Can you explain this process with more details. I have no idea still
of what needs to be done. thanks you


"zeitgeist" wrote in message ...
  > > Ok I took this headshot with a digital camera. Now i would like to
  > > know, how i can put the border around it where i can put the name and
  > > the contact info... so it look like a professional headshot.
  > > I have photoshop 8. any ideas please.
  > >
 >
 > crop your headshot to 7.5 x 8.45. Open a blank file and make it an 8x10 at
 > whatever resolution you want, I usually use 300 dpi cause thats all most
 > printers really recognize even if it says 1440x2880.
 >
 > re-res your headshot file to match your blank page so it should now say 7.5
 > x 8.45 at 300 pdi, now drag it to the new blank file and position it. add
 > your type at the bottom. flatten.
 >
 > before you flatten you could hit the f/x link at the bottom of your layer's
 > pallet and give it a beveled edge or a stroked edge which will put a thin
 > red (or other color) line around the image area, way cool.
 >
 > this reply is echoed to the z-prophoto mailing list at yahoogroups.com
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"Millenium" wrote in message

 > Ok I took this headshot with a digital camera. Now i would like to
 > know, how i can put the border around it where i can put the name and
 > the contact info... so it look like a professional headshot.
 > I have photoshop 8. any ideas please.

You could just use the image resize options. First size the image down by
whatever border width amount you want then just manipulate the canvas size
to the finished size you want. Just be sure to set the canvas color first by
selecting the desired background color. You can then add text, etc..

Shoot'em up, bordered or not, Agfa, Fuji, Kodak and all the rest will love
you for it!!

Jim
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On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 04:43:53 GMT, "zeitgeist"
wrote:

 >
 >
 > I usually use 300 dpi cause thats all most
 >printers really recognize even if it says 1440x2880.

To the original poster, increase the canvas size of the image. Take a
look at how to do that in the manual; its on one of the PS menus,
something like Image/Canvas Size... to get even borders all around,
click the middle box in the image that is presented in the dialog box
that pops up.

To Zeitgeist, you should know that your statement above is actually
incorrect. The resolution of a digital image and the resolution with
which an inkjet prints are two different things. So there's actually a
better reason for not creating digital images over 300 dpi.


-- JC
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I resized the pic, and added the white canvas to it at 8x10, now how i
put the border around the pic, to separate it from the white? and how
i add the text to the canvas>?


thanks
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"Millenium" wrote in message

 > I resized the pic, and added the white canvas to it at 8x10, now how i
 > put the border around the pic, to separate it from the white? and how
 > i add the text to the canvas>?

If your picture is smaller than the 8x10 canvas, the white area is the
border. In the tool selection area, select the 'T' for text. You can then
place the text box anywhere, on the white border or even on the picture
itself. Change font size and color as desired.

Jim
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"Millenium" wrote in message

 > HI
 >
 > Can you explain this process with more details. I have no idea still
 > of what needs to be done. thanks you
 >
 >


do you know how to crop an image?

do you know how to set an image size?
do you know how to change canvas size?

do you have photoshop, or paintshop or any image editor?


   > > > Ok I took this headshot with a digital camera. Now i would like to
   > > > know, how i can put the border around it where i can put the name and
   > > > the contact info... so it look like a professional headshot.
   > > > I have photoshop 8. any ideas please.
   > > >
  > >
  > > crop your headshot to 7.5 x 8.45. Open a blank file and make it an
8x10 at
  > > whatever resolution you want, I usually use 300 dpi cause thats all most
  > > printers really recognize even if it says 1440x2880.
  > >
  > > re-res your headshot file to match your blank page so it should now say
7.5
  > > x 8.45 at 300 pdi, now drag it to the new blank file and position it.
add
  > > your type at the bottom. flatten.
  > >
  > > before you flatten you could hit the f/x link at the bottom of your
layer's
  > > pallet and give it a beveled edge or a stroked edge which will put a
thin
  > > red (or other color) line around the image area, way cool.
  > >
  > > this reply is echoed to the z-prophoto mailing list at yahoogroups.com
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here is an example of the frame i want to put around my headshot.. any
idea of how to do it with photoshop 8?

http://www.graphicreproductions.com/4.htm
thankds
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here is what i want to do to my headshot

http://www.graphicreproductions.com/4.htm

any ideas of how to accomplish it. with photoshop 8?
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On 23 Dec 2003 08:01:11 -0800, jacevedo.TakeThisOut@normandy.navy.mil (Millenium)
wrote:

 >here is an example of the frame i want to put around my headshot.. any
 >idea of how to do it with photoshop 8?
 >
 >http://www.graphicreproductions.com/4.htm
 >thankds

There are several professional level, commercial PS plugins that have
100's or 1000's of frames. That looks like it might have been created
from one of those.

Alternatively, you could create the frame yourself. It is not that
hard. Let's see:

1. Create a new layer
2. Fill with black
3. Select center area, and delete it
4. Rough up the remaining edge area (by selecting/deleting sections,
adding white patches, etc)
5. Run some filters on the remaining border to rough it up some more.

Well... you get the idea.


-- JC
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On 18 Dec 2003 19:28:32 -0800, jacevedo.RemoveThis@normandy.navy.mil (Millenium)
wrote:

 >I resized the pic, and added the white canvas to it at 8x10, now how i
 >put the border around the pic, to separate it from the white? and how
 >i add the text to the canvas>?
 >
 >
 >thanks


First, I should mention that if you have white area OUTSIDE the border
you're going to create then the file size of your image is
unnecessarily too big and your storage problem will mulitply as you
create more of these, exponentially so if you are doing these at high
resolution.

Second, about the text... Have you bothered to look that the text
tool? I generally find it to be pretty handy when I want to add TEXT.


-- JC
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 > here is what i want to do to my headshot
 >
<font color=purple> > <a rel="nofollow" style='text-decoration: none;' href="http://www.graphicreproductions.com/4.htm</font" target="_blank">http://www.graphicreproductions.com/4.htm</font</a>>
 >
 > any ideas of how to accomplish it. with photoshop 8?


Most likely they bought a CD full of borders, that looks like what they used
to call a filed out negative carrier frame, a photog would literally take a
metal file to enlarge the image area around the negative, way out to the
edge of the sprockets, it was an arty look.

Now you can buy CD's full of various royalty free images of borders, that, a
4x5 type neg edge, various polaroid edge effects.

You can make your own, to get a deckle edge take a piece of paper with a
deckle edge and scan it, copy and rotate so you have four sides,

frankly I think you should keep it simple, if you were to talk to casting
agents, ad art directors, you'll find that they find such effects
distracting, even annoying.

what I sometimes do is make a dup layer, hit layer style and add a beveled
edge with inner or outer glow, that will give you a thin clean edge with no
attention getting distractions.

Its really rare that a fancy matting, underlay, overlay, pin stripe tape,
and arty borders actually improves an image. In PPA print competition you
will see it on a lot of prints, but any time it becomes as noticable as the
subject itself then the whole thing takes a hit in the score, it smells of
flop sweat, a desperation move to rescue a mediocre image that the submitter
had already spent a wad to make a print and retouch. It just doesn't sing,
so they start putting mattes and color tape edges hoping something might
fly.

Photoshop 8? geez, I'm still puttering around with 6.

here's some ideas...

if your target is an 8x10, then scale your image for, say 7 inches wide,
make another copy of the image that is 7.5 wide, now run a filter or two,
streak it, blur it, dapple, grain, swirl, whatever. hit image adjust and
curves or brightness and make it a step or two darker (or brighter) and drag
it on to the final canvas, then drop your main image, now you have a custom
border keyed to your image.
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"Millenium" wrote in message

 > here is an example of the frame i want to put around my headshot.. any
 > idea of how to do it with photoshop 8?
 >
<font color=purple> > <a rel="nofollow" style='text-decoration: none;' href="http://www.graphicreproductions.com/4.htm</font" target="_blank">http://www.graphicreproductions.com/4.htm</font</a>>
 > thankds

man, you other people are no help at all.



you need to size down your image to the size you want it. find a 'sloppy'
border like the one in the sample (you'll have to do your own searching for
those). increase the white canvas to 8x10, then drag over the black sloppy
and line it up (use 'scale'). add the text to the bottom and you're done.
for a genuine headshot, you will want the white canvas on the bottom to be
bigger than on the top (see your sample). reverse borders also look cool.
that is when you have a white sloppy and black large canvas around it.

and by the way, resolution on screen is rated in PIXELS per inch (ppi), not
dots (dpi), therefore you want your resolution set to 300ppi.
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